Where: Pot Smoker BBQ, 340 Edgefield Road, North Augusta, SC 29841 – map www.thepotsmokerbbq.com This the monthly dinner meeting of the premier Miata Club in the CSRA. Come out and have some eats with fellow[...]

Location: The Outing Club in Aiken, SC. The Outing Club is located, appropriately enough, on Outing Club Rd which is off the 118 By-pass about 2 miles from USC Aiken. The entrance gate (33.595227, -81.762587)[...]

Thanks to Karol for making arrangements for tonight’s meeting! Rae’s is a well hidden gem. Excellent seafood, but also some standard American fare with a carribbean flair, at reasonable prices.

Treasurer’s Report: The club account started at $1119.80, added $20.00 in dues, makes a balance of $1139.80.

Ongoing:
• Tom and Larry have business cards with the club website to handout to prospective Miata owners that may be interested in joining our club.
• See Dennis for name tags…
• New club merchandise is available: Pins are $3 each; “Support Vehicle” car magnets are $25 per pair, canvas tote/shopping bag $20 each. The 3” window stickers have come in and are available now.
Coffee mugs and other items are available from http://www.cafepress.com/masters_miata
Communigraphics in North Augusta has our logo, for $8 you can have it embroidered on just about anything.

Club Business:
• Dues for calendar year 2018 are due now. In fact they were due on 1 Jan, so please see Mike Dyer or any officer at your next meeting to get caught up. Thank you for your support!
• Voting is complete on rewriting the by-laws, the proposals were unanimously passed(with 16 votes):
1. Delete Article VI, Item C – “C. Only one individual of a multi-person membership shall hold an elected office during any term, unless approved by the general membership on a case-by-case basis.
2. ADD The following 2 Items to Article IX, Dues and Expenditures:
a) – Item D: “The Officers shall conduct the Club’s business such that the Club’s Checking
Account balance shall not drop below $600.”
b) – Item E: “The minimum account balance requirement of Item D may be waived, on a
case by case basis, by a quorum vote of the general membership.”
****As a note, Mike Dyer says the current bank requires a minimum balance of $300 to avoid charges, and Brian Bogardus says the current charge for the website is $100 per year.*****

• Don Boltz has volunteered to plan a drive to Asheville and New Belguim Brewery in April in place of the dinner meeting (that won’t happen because of Masters). Possibly overnight (or on your own). More to come as we get closer to April. Thanks Don!!
• Last, Please remember to RSVP to our events – it makes it difficult for the planner if we don’t know how many will show – especially for smaller venues. Your RSVP is greatly appreciated, so please don’t forget.

New Business/Upcoming calendar events:
• Dennis is going to check into a better more professional looking name tag, worthy of our club, and will present his findings to the members for approval.

Upcoming calendar events:

DATE

EVENT – LOCATION

COORDINATORS

17-Feb

Breakfast – La Dolce Bakery, Aiken

Also looking at doing a drive after

Shirley Dyer

1-Mar

Dinner Meeting – Boll Weevil, Augusta

Rolf Wilms

3-Mar

Coffee and Cars – Columbia County Exhibition Center

You

17 March

Optimist Club Pancake Breakfast – N. Augusta

Stacey Timmerman

5-Apr

No Dinner Meeting Masters Week – but may do a drive to Asheville & New Belgium Brewery

1 comment to February (25th Anniversary) Meeting Minutes

Coffee and Cars is no longer at the CC convention ctr, hasn’t been for a while now – seems they wanted to charge $800 for the few hours there, in other words, we don’t want you here anymore. They’ve bounced around a bit and have settled at The Harley Davidson place on Frontage Rd. just down from the Steak & Shake, as their fall-back and ‘home’. However, this is from their site:
4th ANNIVERSARY MEET AT CAROLINA DRAGWAY
March 10th is the next edition of Coffee and Cars Augusta with the Toys for Tots Literacy Program at Carolina Dragway celebrating our 4 Year Anniversary!! We are looking to collect a huge amount of books for all the little ones that need them, so come out and help us fill up those Toys for Tots Book Collection Bins!

If you haven’t been to one at the dragway, it’s big, really big – and you can race your car for $20. It’s interesting just to watch.